Improvement in iron fences



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HENRY 1). sTIMsoN, 0F OOVINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN IRON FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156.507,dated November 3,1874; application filed May 1, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY D. STIMsoN, of Oovington, in the county of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fences for Yards, Lawns, &c., of which the following is a specification:

This invention will first be fully described, and subsequently pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is an elevation of the fence and gate. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken-on the line as a: of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the lower-rail. B represents the posts, which extend above the top of the fence. These serve as gate-posts, and are placed at convenient intervals to support the fence, havin g short posts 0 between them, which extend only to the top of the lower rail or bottom board A. These short posts have each a staybar, D, attached, which extend up to the middle rail E, to which they'are attached. The

middle rail E is composed of two bars of iron riveted together, one on each side of the fence,

' as seen in the drawing. This rail extends from one long post to the next, to which it is fastened, and stayed by the bars D. G represents the filling between the posts B, which consists of a series of metallic rings, H. These rings are confined between the two riveted bars of the rail E, and each is confined to the lower rail A by a staple, I; or they may be cut, and the ends bent downward and pressed into holes in the rail A. These rings lap onto each other, so as to represent a succession of geometric figures, as seen in Fig. 1.

L is a gate, which may be used in connection with a fence constructed according to the present invention.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination of a series of overlapping metallic rings, central connecting-bars E, and base-sill A, to which the rings are secured, as herein shown and described.

HENRY D. STIMSON.

Witnesses:

- B. F. HowELL,

WILMOT D. HUsTED. 

